Senior Full-Stack Developer (EdTech 1st Hire!)
Summary
Build and shape an EdTech platform for teachers, owning full-stack development (React/TypeScript frontend, Node/TypeScript backend, PostgreSQL, AWS) from ground zero with direct co-founder collaboration.
Were supporting a disruptive EdTech SaaS Startup to land their 1st Full-time, permanent Engineering hire!
This is an opportunity to get in at the ground-floor of a Startup thats making waves in the Education sector with their Operating System for teachers. Their platform brings pupil information together and strengthens connections between teachers and parents.
Theyve just closed a fundraising round, and are looking for the person who can help them build what comes next. Theyre just getting started
The role
This is not a heres your ticket, go build it job.
As the first senior engineering hire, youll have genuine ownership. Youll work directly with the co-founder to understand the problem, shape the solution, make the technical decisions, build it, test it and get it into production.
Youll work across:
Frontend: React 19 + React Router v7 + TypeScript
Backend: Node.js 22 + TypeScript
Database: PostgreSQL
Infrastructure: AWS
Youll also work with integrations including Wonde, Postmark, Twilio and Daily.
What theyre looking for
Someone who:
- Can take a feature from idea ? production with minimal hand-holding
- Cares deeply about quality and user experience
- Is comfortable owning their own QA no separate QA team here
- Can spot bugs, performance issues and technical debt before they become problems
- Enjoys making architectural decisions and thinking about how systems scale
- Writes clean, maintainable code
- Communicates clearly and can translate technical thinking for a non-technical co-founder
- Wants their work to have a visible impact
Why join?
You wont be joining a huge engineering org where your work disappears into the backlog.
Youll be one of the people shaping the product, engineering culture and technical foundations from the ground up.
If youre a senior full-stack developer in Northern Ireland who wants real ownership, real influenceand the chance tobuild something that could genuinely change how schools operate, id love to hear from you.
>Hybrid 2 days in Belfast.
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Skills:
React Typescript Node AWS Fullstack Engineering
Benefits:
Parking Hybrid
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